[Intro — slow clean guitar arpeggios, distant ambient drones, soft repeating percussion loop resembling orbital motion] [Verse 1] Every year removed a layer Left me thinner, left me stranger [Low bass swell enters gradually] I watched entire versions fade Into outlines memory erased There are ghosts attached to age Invisible weight beneath the face Every hour leaves a mark Across the architecture of the heart [Delayed Chorus — full low-end expansion] Time doesn’t heal the way they claim It just teaches pain to change Every loss becomes sediment Buried underneath the skin And I know eventually Everything becomes history Still I keep carrying names Long after they fade away [Instrumental Ring Section — circular guitar delay patterns repeat while drums pulse slowly underneath] [Verse 2 — sparse half-time feel] The silence feels enormous now Like winter settling through the house I don’t fear disappearance anymore Only being forgotten when I’m gone [Percussion strips back almost completely] Even love obeys the drift Everything eventually shifts But there’s beauty in the slow collapse Of moments we can’t hold intact [Bridge — transition into 6/8] [Dissonant harmonic swells beneath vocal] Every season carved the bone Every triumph turned to stone Still I stand beneath the weight Learning how to age with grace [Layered low vocal harmonies enter] If existence bends toward dust Why does memory still haunt us? Maybe meaning lives within What time can never fully strip [Final Chorus — crushing emotional expansion, wider guitars] Time doesn’t heal the wound completely It just teaches how to breathe beneath it Every scar becomes a ring Wrapped around everything we’ve been And I know someday my voice Will disappear into the noise Still I leave these words behind Like proof I once survived the night [Outro — repeating guitar loop slowly deteriorates into distant ambient resonance]
